🙋‍♀️

Woman Raising Hand Emoji 🙋‍♀️

What 🙋‍♀️ means

A shoulder-length portrayal of a smiling woman with side-parted, neck-length hair holding her right hand up and parallel to the head. First off, this emoji signifies a voluntary action, given the smile on her face.

The 🙋‍♀️ Woman Raising Hand further suggests an act of being excited, yelling 'Present' (like in a classroom), or even just raising the hand to greet someone. It can refer to a sense of being welcoming and having a light vibe, and not the toxic, heavy kind.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're volunteering to do something on a group chat, be it a personal or even a professional group chat, you can pop in the 🙋‍♀️ emoji to show that you're up for the plan.
You can also use 🙋‍♀️ to show that you support someone or something either on a group chat or even as a reaction to a social media post.
When you're trying to ask a question or answer on a group chat that seems to be flooding with other people's texts and opinions, you can use 🙋‍♀️ to draw some attention to yourself before you can type in your message.
Use 🙋‍♀️ while greeting someone, it can be in a way of welcoming someone new or just greeting the same old folks when you're in a particularly great mood.
🙋‍♀️ can be integrated into a context that even requires you to confirm your presence, like an informal attendance checklist amongst your friends, or even a class group.

Other Names

🙋‍♀️ Excited
🙋‍♀️ Volunteering
🙋‍♀️ Happy
🙋‍♀️ Happy Woman Raising Hand
🙋‍♀️ Asking a Question
🙋‍♀️ Answering a Question
🙋‍♀️ Greetings
🙋‍♀️ Hi!
🙋‍♀️ Welcome!
🙋‍♀️ Hey
🙋‍♀️ Positive Vibes
🙋‍♀️ Welcoming
🙋‍♀️ Good Mood

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :woman-raising-hand: Slack:woman_raising_hand: Discord
Keywords: gesture, hand, here, know, me, pick, question, raise, raising, woman
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.